Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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At their first meeting of 2019, the Tehachapi School Board approved a Memorandum of Understanding between Tehachapi Unified School District and Sandy Hook Promise Foundation (SHPF) to educate TUSD middle school and high school students about the Foundation's no-cost Say Something-Anonymous Reporting System (SS-ARS). The program is completely funded by the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation which is based in Newtown, Conn. Basically, the SS-ARS will instruct students, educators and administrators on...
On Saturday, Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. at The Shed, the Rotary Club of Tehachapi will be hosting the 5th Annual Wine Pairing Dinner, which is one of the Club's major fundraisers for the year. This year the featured wines are from the Boisset Collection with wine Ambassador, Loren Hoffman available to talk about each and every wine. Mano Lujan, owner of The Shed and Red House BBQ, who has experienced culinary studies in China, Japan and Mexico is specifically designing the food so the wine enhances its...
Founder of the Tehachapi Cancer Foundation, Jim Wallace, told the Rotary Club of Tehachapi about the mission of the organization that was established by Wallace and his wife Tammy who passed away from the disease shortly after the organization received its 501(c)3 status. The focus of the organization is to assist cancer patients and their families with some of the unexpected hardships and expenses that accompany the treatment of cancer. Wallace said that even the amount of gas needed to get...
I've written before about the great work being done by very smart and talented people on behalf of the City of Tehachapi. It's work that has an everyday positive impact for the community, our citizens and those who simply visit Tehachapi to experience for themselves the wonderful place we've created. That work continues to be recognized regionally and from time to time we'll be awarded for those efforts. This year I'm happy to announce that the Kern Council of Governments has selected the City...
I am grateful for the honor and privilege of serving Kern County's Second District on the Board of Supervisors. Together, we have accomplished much, and this newsletter focuses on some of the highlights for Kern County and the Second District. Kern County Budget Update The Board of Supervisors passed the county's budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year. We are in year three of our 4-year plan to eliminate the General Fund structural deficit, after several years of falling oil prices and rising...
After a long and somewhat contentious election campaign season, the newly elected City Council members were sworn in at the Dec. 17 City Council meeting. Mayor Pro Tempore Susan Wiggins and Councilman Phil Smith were both reelected by their districts and Michael Davies was elected to complete the at-large term of the late Mayor Ed Grimes. The other new member to the Council, Joan Pogon-Cord, was out of town and will be sworn in at the Jan. 7 meeting. A recount held prior to the Monday night...
The long rumored Red Apple Pavilion came closer to becoming a reality when the Tehachapi Planning Commission approved the architectural design and site plan at their Dec. 10 meeting. Tehachapi City Planner Trevor Hawkes presented the concept drawings for the 120,455-sq.-ft. multi-tenant commercial center to be located on the 14-acres on the southwest corner of Tucker Rd. and Red Apple Ave. The project is to be completed in two phases. Phase I: about 33,000-sq.-ft. will be completed first and...
Two Saturday’s ago, the streets of Downtown Tehachapi were filled with patrons at Main Street Tehachapi’s Annual Ugly Sweater Wine Walk. The fundraiser, which invites attendees to walk through our thriving downtown area and sample wine and food from local businesses, sold nearly 500 tickets and was a huge success. Reports from local businesses also drew praise for the number of visitors and new residents that were enjoying the festivities. They found this out because in typical Teh...
At the Nov. 8 meeting of the Tehachapi Rotary Club, local historian and authority on everything Tehachapi Jon Hammond spoke about the historic development of flora and fauna of the area. Hammond talked about the Tehachapi mountains and how, as a transverse mountain range, it supplied a corridor for the animal population to travel from east to west leading to the unique variety of wildlife that was at one time found here. According to Hammond, grizzly and black bears were actually found here...
Have you ever reached in your pocket and found unexpected cash? Recently, while getting ready for a trip to Massachusetts, I thought I'd better send my winter coat to the dry cleaners before going. I hadn't worn it since our trip back east last year, and it was getting dusty sitting in the closet. I reached into one of the pockets before dropping it off and what do you know? There was $300 in cash just waiting for me to find it. Now $300 isn't going to change our lifestyle any but it was a nice...
Bee Good to Yourself Essential Oils Training Center held their official Grand Opening on Nov. 15. They were joined by civic leaders, Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and community members. Bee Good to Yourself Essential Oils Training Center is located at 798 Tucker Rd. Stop by for a free consultation....
Sometimes we all just need a little reassurance in our lives. This past week those of us at City Hall and in the community got that reassurance with the results of our City election and the opening of our new hospital. In government, as well as in many of our personal lives, we certainly don't hear enough of the positive feedback. It's the naysayers that command attention, they often times have the loudest voice, spin the most lavish tales and are the first to find fault in every situation. I'm...
It is important both in our personal and professional lives to really focus on what matters. Often we're distracted with the imperfections around us, the bumps in the road, the details of the journey, that we forget about the moments, the defining moments that make us, that make our community. In our personal lives those moments could be things like our first day of school, our first car, first job. Graduating high school, leaving for college, marriage; all these moments woven together provide...
There's a new dry cleaner in town located at 979 E. Valley Blvd. Suite 4, behind Fastrip in Tehachapi, and the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and members of our community officially welcomed them on Oct. 24. The mother and daughter team of Tanya and Jeanette Joham are excited to bring their services and bargain rates to our ever growing community....
A key concern for Kiwanis is the well-being of children, and they were interested to know how Measure R would improve outdated recreational facilities. Therefore, they invited Michelle Vance and Laura Lynne Wyatt to tell them about the measure which would upgrade and renovate existing parks, grounds and recreational facilities in the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District. The measure is on the November ballot and must pass by a 2/3 majority. Vance said TVRPD was formed in 1959 and...
Community members will get their first opportunity Sunday to see the long-awaited Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Medical Center located at 1100 Magellan Drive in Tehachapi, during a day of public tours starting at noon on Sunday, Oct. 28. The state-of-the-art, critical access hospital has a target opening date in November and will replace the current medical center located in downtown Tehachapi built in 1954. The new hospital will include a 13-room emergency department equipped with trauma,...
One of Tehachapi's most popular restaurants, Jake's Steakhouse, 213 S. Curry St., celebrated 15 years with help from the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and members of the community on Oct. 17....
A Tehachapi City Development Services Department grant application to the California Natural Resources Agency's Urban Greening Program became a major issue at the Oct. 1 City Council meeting. Development Services Director Jay Schlosser asked the Council to authorize the filing of an application for the Urban Greening Grant Program and assure that, should the City receive the grant, the project would be completed. The program was created in 2016 and Schlosser had sent a grant application, but...
The industrial revolution changed the habitation patterns of the world. Rural residents needed to live around cities where the jobs and services were located. As we continue along in today's technical revolution, the pace of technology is shifting those patterns once again. Transportation, the internet and new business practices allow residents to commute to their jobs from further distances. Many can telecommute and have the ability to work from essentially anywhere. That advancement of...
There's a new dry cleaner in town. Mother and daughter team Tanya and Jeanette Joham have just opened Joe's Dry Cleaning at 979 E. Valley Blvd. Suite 4, behind Fastrip and next to Liberty Tax. The official Grand Opening will be held on Oct. 24 from 4-6 p.m. and the public is invited. The official Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting will be at 4:30 p.m. Jeanette mentioned that refreshments will be on hand for all visitors. Tanya moved to Tehachapi two years ago after living in Las Vegas for 20...
The City of Tehachapi was honored on Sept. 27 with an engineering award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for the Tehachapi Boulevard Bike Path Project. "The City of Tehachapi is honored to receive an award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for the Tehachapi Boulevard Bike Path Project. We received this award in the category of 'Outstanding Bikeways & Trailways.' It is no surprise to me that Tehachapi is being recognized for our quality of life. Years of hard work...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. To raise awareness about the importance of saving for retirement, Congress has dedicated Oct. 21-27 as National Retirement Security Week. And the evidence shows that increasing this awareness is indeed important. Consider this: Some 50 percent of households are considered at risk of not having enough money to maintain their living standards in retirement, according to the National Retirement Risk...
Keeping downtown Tehachapi beautiful is something that we can take pride in and with the City of Tehachapi's Adopt-a-Landscape program, the City is once again promoting this 12-month program and encouraging businesses, organizations, families and individuals to sponsor the landscape maintenance of areas within the city limits. With your sponsorship, the City will provide the landscaping and maintenance at one of the designated locations of your choice. Specific maintenance includes irrigation...
On Sept. 24 civic leaders and the Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce turned out for the Grand Opening of the First American Title's new location at 1001 W. Tehachapi Blvd., Ste. B-300....
In the final minutes of the Sept. 17 City Council meeting, Councilman Phil Smith mentioned that, after his many years on the Kern Council of Governments (Kern COG) and his appeals to Caltrans for truck climbing lanes on Hwy 58 between General Beale Rd. and Tehachapi, there recently has been movement from Caltrans. Not just movement. Smith additionally reported that Caltrans District 9 Director Brent Green and his senior staff met with City of Tehachapi officials on Thursday, Sept. 20. City...
